Billionaires should not exist

You keep demonstrating the accuracy of your sobriquet.

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Except I'm not the one proposing massive extractions of wealth by the government to supposedly grow the economy as you just did.
 
It's interesting that to many America is this beacon of freedom and opportunity, a place people from all over the world want to come even those with no money and don't know the language. Yet if you do come and become a billionaire you are now essentially evil.
 
I would favor an extreme tax on excessive wealth.

But I believe there should be an option for good people.

OK, so here's my reasoning.

Money doesn't really exist. Well, of course, it does exist, but it is not a natural thing. Humans invented the concept. Now we have it and it causes lots of problems. Having money exist is like giving greedy people all the rope they need to hang themselves. And they do. Oh do they ever. They get so obsessed with gathering money they are like the addicted test monkey that will keep hitting the button for another hit of cocaine instead of the one for food.

They gather so much money it's bad for them.

They gather way more than they ever need to meet their needs and be happy.

What is the point of living? That's a question that has individual answers. Nicely we are free to decide for ourselves what the point of it all is.

For me, I like the lines from that James Taylor song: "The secret of life is enjoying the passage of time." (which explains why I make no time for trolls)


We all need money. We need money to enjoy our lives, to enjoy the passage of time. Some are born into it, most have to work for their own.

The super-rich have way more than they need to enjoy their lives. They have so much they routinely have to decide what is to happen to it all when they die. That's because they have way more money than they will ever spend during their lifetime, even if they live a life of ultimate luxury.

That strikes me as a waste of wealth. It should be put to better use. Especially true when there is so much need in the world which can be met by using that wealth for a good purpose.

So let's tax it away from the super-rich who are not using it as well as it could be used.

But let's give them the option of deciding how it will be used. Most of us don't get the option of deciding how our tax money is spent. We get to have a small say, which is virtually useless with Congress.

But this situation is different. We are talking about taking away a lot of money these people earned or amassed somehow through investments or inheritance or luck or whatever. Let's give them the option of directing what good purpose it is to be used for, or even setting up a non-profit to accomplish that purpose. Let the selections be reviewed by Congress. Just make some simple ground rules. It needs to benefit a large number of people of limited means.

They would have the option of either doing that or just let the government take it and use it for the same purpose outlined in the above simple rule.

Because really, after so much money is amassed into a personal fortune? More doesn't make their life any better. After some magic point all they are doing is trying to post the biggest number.

There is a lot of greed in this world that goes towards trying to have the biggest number depicting net worth.

So let's acknowledge all this earning in a different way. Come up with a scoring system. When their wealth is taken away, or forced to be spent for good under this system, GIVE THEM POINTS!

Let them compete for prestige by getting the most points! Then that wealth can be used for true goodness rather than just funding large greedy corporations which only serve to make a few executives and investors richer. Those corporations will be just fine. They are all sitting on piles of cash anyway.

Who can get the most GOODPOINTS?

Let the competition begin.

I see your problem. You believe it's your place to determine how much of something someone else needs.
 
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